Well....the closer you can get to the materials you are patching, the better. Soooooo, if its a concrete material, you could use a cement material...if my understanding is somewhat near correct, you'd want something pretty smooth and workable. But a little voice keeps telling me that you are patching wood...so, you would want to cut a wood patch into the hole...but if your carpentry skills are like mine, you'll never get the fit quite right...so maybe you cut it as close as you can and the glue it in, wood filler perhaps. I don't think you want epoxy...but maybe. Sometime back...a long time back, I came across a floor leveling plaster-like stuff that had been installed over historic plank flooring to facilitate the installation of carpet. The movement of the boards eventually broke up the leveling stuff in to a powder or granular sort of stuff. I don't know what the stuff was but it was more like plaster than concrete and had none of the resilience of a latex material. I'm convinced I've only got a partial picture of your problem. Can't do pictures?! How ever do you communicate? Are you thinking about this hole this weekend, or are you working on it? (Now suddenly I feel guilty about this annoying little project I never finished last spring when the season turned wet and stayed that way all summer. Suppose I should get moving on it before the weather gets nice enough that I run out of excuses for not painting the house and repairing the deck. The damn water table is up or something and the footings have popped and now even Suzy can see that its not level...and she points it out to me...as if its my job to fix things! Hey! I can draw it...I can detail it...I can spec it...surely no one expects me to know HOW to DO it!?) -jc On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Met History wrote: > In a message dated 5/3/03 4:24:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > > . Got a picture? > > > > Can't do pictures. Plaster is like, too friable for such a use - > yes? Something stronger, right? What's a generic thing, like > concrete, that is sold in small - pint/quart? - quantities? > > Thank you, John. C